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Team details

Rivals	Getafe
Club Profile	Club Website Twitter: @CDLeganes Facebook: @ClubDeportivoLeganes Address: Estadio Municipal Butarque, Calle Arquitectura, s/n, 28918 Leganés, Madrid, Spain Nicknames: Los Pepineros
Stadium	Opened in 1998, the Estadio Municipal de Butarque is the home of Leganés and it is the perfect size for them, with a capacity of 12,000. They’ve little by little increased the capacity and added hospitality sections since their promotion to LaLiga in 2016 and this ground is now one of the nicest ones in LaLiga for fans to visit. It is essentially laid out in the shape of an oval, but without any running track. This makes for a good atmosphere, especially because this ground is often full. Situated at the top of a hill, it can get windy on occasion.
Recent History	Leganés are enjoying the greatest years in their entire history. They’d never been in LaLiga until they won promotion to the top flight in 2016. Before that, they’d rarely even been in the second tier as they were in the lower regional leagues for most of their existence. That changed under Asier Garitano as the coach led them to the top tier and they’ve been there ever since, even if Garitano moved on in 2018. Although they’ve usually been fighting towards the bottom of the LaLiga table, they have so far been able to end up avoiding relegation and they even went on a spectacular cup run in 2017/18 when they reached the Copa del Rey semi-finals by knocking out Real Madrid in the process. This club is doing a lot of good things off the pitch too. Led by female president María Victoria Pavón, they have an excellent marketing and communications team and have won awards for some of their fun and family-friendly initiatives.
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Season Guide

2024/2025

Leganes

In

Miguel de la Fuente (att) Alaves; Juan Cruz (att) Real Betis; Enric Franquesa (def) Levante; Juan Soriano (gk) Tenerife; Valentin Rosier (def) Besiktas; Roberto Lopez (att) Real Sociedad

Out

Dani Jimenez (sp) (gk) Huesca; Diego Conde (k) (gk) Villarreal; Sergio Navarro (sp) (att) Alcorcon; Luis Perea (sp) (mid) Racing Ferrol; Jorge Miramon (r) (def) AEK Larnaca

Leganes returned to LaLiga after four years in the second tier and are now in the top flight for only the second time in their history, following their stay between 2016 and 2020. They'll be hoping to repeat the feat of avoiding the drop after securing the talents of their star loanees from last season in Miguel de la Fuente, Juan Cruz and Enric Franquesa, who will now have to adapt to the top tier. The team has the benefit of momentum, coming up from Segunda as champions, and they became very hard to beat with only eight defeats from 42 games. That defensive strength will be needed as the Pepineros will want to replicate their record of the division's best defence last season. Leganes' fans will be concerned about the situation in goal. Star man Diego Conde left for Villarreal, and his replacement Juan Soriano did well for Tenerife last season, but has never played regularly in the first division of LaLiga. The team have the benefit of not facing any of last season's top four until late October, and taking advantage to establish themselves in the early weeks of the campaign. Coach Borja Jimenez will need to adapt quickly to his first taste of managing in the first division.

Target

Staying up. Leganes haven't invested heavily but have a team which got promoted by being difficult to beat, they'll need to continue that trend to make sure that they can stay in LaLiga.